Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Kali has some treats for those who like cartoon paintings

Who owns these handsome eyes?

Kali has been studying up on painting-particularly characters. She has been copying old kid book paintings and amassing techniques. I told her that copying is good, but for every painting you copy, you should make a painting from scratch and apply some of the techniques. That way you get value from your copies. Otherwise you just get good at copying but aren't able to function on a job when they ask you to do something tailor-made.

Now if you want to be good at painting backgrounds and characters ( I will do a post about character paintings later) you should collect old illustrated kids' books, because you can find a myriad of great techniques and fun styles.

Hey John KAre you creating a new cartoon for tv at the moment? Would love to see your stuff on tv again or even an online Flash cartoon! I loved Ren & Stimpy (when you had control of it after that it wasn't that good).